Category: OS X & iPhone

About a month ago, my beloved Thunderbolt display began buzzing. After some research, it seemed that there could be all sorts of solutions. The one that seemed to almost always work was sending off the monitor to get the power…

I recently discovered NoMachine’s NX while looking for an easy way to encrypt VNC. NX, if you aren’t familiar with it, is generally a PITA to setup, but well worth the pain (on Linux anyway). All traffic goes over SSH…

Need to uninstall xquartz but keep running into the following error? macbook:~ clem$ sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist launchctl: Error unloading: org.macosforge.xquartz.startx For whatever reason, you have to run this particular unload as a regular user and not as root…

It appears Apple changed the way NAT works, starting in Lion and this upset a lot of people. Apparently, nat would just stop working for some folks after they upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard. Finding really in-depth information about…

I recently modified my Parallels DHCP settings because I’m really particular about the internal subnets I work with in the lab (192.168 is the ugliest subnet ever). Once I modified the file at /Library/Preferences/VMware\ Fusion/networking (OS X) my Parallels Desktop…

This setup is so unlikely, I doubt anyone on the ‘net will be looking for this solution but: if you’re an eBook loving Windows developer who uses a Macbook Pro for your primary workstation, this may appeal to you. My…